"If you find a chance to vanish into some wilderness out of their reach, do
so, but not to exist as a bandit or to create a gang competing with their
racket; build a productive life of your own with those who accept your moral
code and are willing to struggle for a human existence. You have no chance
to win on the Morality of Death or by the code of faith and force; raise a
standard to which the honest will repair: the standard of Life and Reason.



"Act as a rational being and aim at becoming a rallying point for all those
who are starved for a voice of integrity-act on your rational values,
whether alone in the midst of your enemies, or with a few of your chosen
friends, or as the founder of a modest community on the frontier of
mankind's rebirth.



"When the looters' state collapses, deprived of the best of its slaves, when
it falls to a level of impotent chaos, like the mystic-ridden nations of the
Orient, and dissolves into starving robber gangs fighting to rob one
another-when the advocates of the morality of sacrifice perish with their
final ideal-then and on that day we will return.



"We will open the gates of our city to those who deserve to enter, a city of
smokestacks, pipe lines, orchards, markets and inviolate homes. We will act
as the rallying center for such hidden outposts as you'll build. With the
sign of the dollar as our symbol-the sign of free trade and free minds-we
will move to reclaim this country once more from the impotent savages who
never discovered its nature, its meaning, its splendor. Those who choose to
join us, will join us; those who don't, will not have the power to stop us;
hordes of savages have never been an obstacle to men who carried the banner
of the mind.



"Then this country will once more become a sanctuary for a vanishing
species: the rational being. The political system we will build is contained
in a single moral premise: no man may obtain any values from others by
resorting to physical force. Every man will stand or fall, live or die by
his rational judgment. If he fails to use it and falls, he will be his only
victim. If he fears that his judgment is inadequate, he will not be given a
gun to improve it. If he chooses to correct his errors in time, he will have
the unobstructed example of his betters, for guidance in learning to think;
but an end will be put to the infamy of paying with one life for the errors
of another.